Runoff, soil loss, and nutrient depletion under traditional and alternative cropping systems in the transmexican volcanic belt, Central Mexico

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 640-653

  Bravo espinosa, M ^a   Mendoza, M E ^b   Medina Orozco, L ^c   Prat, C ^d   Garcia Oliva F ^e   Lopez Granados E ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acrisols; Conservation tillage; Herbaceous fallow; Maize oat rotation; Soil degradation

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CULTIVATION; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RUNOFF; SOILS; VOLCANOES;

ACRISOLS; ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CULTIVATION PERIODS; HERBACEOUS FALLOW; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ACRISOL; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP ROTATION; CROPPING PRACTICE; FALLOW; NUTRIENT LOSS; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

AVENA STRIGOSA; BOS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77749315516     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.953     Document Type: Article

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